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Rachel Rowlands, Editor & Author
Rachel Rowlands, Editor & Author

Author: Rachel Rowlands

Rachel Rowlands is a fiction editor and author. She loves helping writers develop, refine, and polish their stories. To date, she has worked on around two hundred books for independent authors and publishers, including Hachette, HarperCollins, Black Library, and Penguin Random House.
Is your story idea strong enough to become a book?
Ideas and inspiration | Story development | Writing

Is your story idea strong enough to become a book?

Posted onJuly 15, 2019August 23, 2023

Just having an idea isn’t enough when you want to write a book. You have to decide whether your story idea is strong enough – can you turn it into a book of 50k words or more? If you choose a weak idea, you could…

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